Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe: With Thirty PlatesArchaeological researches at Medinet el Fayun, Egypt. |
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Page 38 - Romae et penicillo pinxit et cestro in ebore imagines mulierum maxume et Neapoli anum in grandi tabula, suam quoque imaginem ad speculum, 148.
Page 52 - In any case the remains of plants have a very high antiquity, and they throw some light on the solution of the question, whether the species of plants have undergone any change in historic time. With respect to the wild plants, the question must be answered in the negative. The most careful investigation of them shows a surprising agreement with the recent species, and even small varieties of form have been retained, as we see in the water-lily, the fir, the sloe, the bird cherry, and the hazel-nut.
Page 5 - On that space could be erected the great hall of Karnak, and all the successive temples adjoining it, and the great court and pylons of it ; also the temple of Mut, and that of Khonsu, and that of Amenhotep III. at Karnak ; also the two great temples of Luxor ; and still there would be room for the whole of the Ramesseum. In short, all of...
Page 37 - Encausto pingendi duo fuere antiquitus genera, cera et in ebore cestro, id est viriculo, donee classes pingi coepere. hoc tertium accessit resolutis igni ceris penicillo utendi, quae pictura navibus nee sole nee sale ventisque corrumpitur.
Page 47 - ... one case with the fruit adhering, has established that this plant is the Abyssinian species to which Schimper's name has been given, and which is characterised by the long and slender petiole of the leaf. In none of the species, except the vine to which I have referred, which Dr. Schweinfurth has discovered, and of which he has made a careful study, has he been able to detect any peculiarities in the living plants which are absent in those obtained from the tombs.
Page 48 - By placing the plants in warm water, Dr. Schweinfurth has succeeded in preparing a series of specimens gathered four thousand years ago, which are as satisfactory for the purposes of science as any collected at the present day.
Page 5 - ... hall of Karnak and all the successive temples adjoining it, and the great court and pylons of it ; also the temple of Mut and that of Kliensu, and that of Amen-hetep III.
Page 17 - ... black glass for the iris and surrounding it with a neatly curved border of blue glass, always polished on the upper surface ...' He also states that 'The gilt busts of more substantial form, about 50 AD, required more solid work; and the eyes are then cut in white marble, tapering wedge-shaped behind and with a hole drilled in the middle to receive an iris plug of black glass, or obsidian. The finest portrait busts demanded higher work, and then the iris was of clear brown glass or stone, with...
Page 38 - Paint me my mistress with her soft black tresses and, if the wax can do it, breathing myrrh!